1. Alfred Longley Riggs
  2. Alfred Longley Riggs

Alfred Longley Riggs

Date arrived: 
Dec 6th 1837
Arrived in: 
Chippewa County, MN, USA
Date departed: 
Apr 15th 1916
Departed from: 
McCartys, NM, USA
Other Names: 
Ziŋtkádaŋ Wašté (Eastern Dakota)

Voice of

  • Oúŋ Eháŋna (1912)
    A summary of a Southern Workman article by Ohíyes’a, in which he describes, first-hand, the precolonial lifestyle still led by northern Ojibwes. He focuses mostly on canoe building and the harvesting of wild-rice and other foods.

Contributed to

  • Uŋkčékčetaŋ Tháŋka (1905)
    The author describes the taste, shape, and size of prickly pears (cactus fruit), for an audience who has never seen them before, and expresses his wish to learn how to cultivate them.
  • Standing Rock's 1908 Delegation to Washington (1908)
    Frank Goodcloud adds his opinion to the dispute raging at Standing Rock about land leasing. He encourages the five young men traveling to Washington advocate for their people with honesty, invoking the strength of the Japanese against the Russians.

Mentions in the recordings

  • Stephen Jones déčhen oyáka, “Iná déčhen omákiyaka, tóhaŋ Dr. A. L. Riggs mniámakaštaŋ kta uŋkháŋ mičháže kta iwíčhawaŋǧa uŋkháŋ Demas eyápi. Stephen Jones said, “my mom used to tell me that when Dr. A. L. Riggs was baptizing me, he had asked them for my name and so they said Demas.
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